Gordon Soars To Stadium Truck Glory

Caution flew on lap-10 following a re-start where Gordon raced back out to four truck length lead ahead of McCachren and Lofton. Arie Luyendyk Jr. found trouble rounding the last corner of lap 12 resulting in a roll over on the side of his No. 25 machine bringing out a full course red flag.

On the restart Lofton lost the handle on the Solar City No. 6 rounding the peristyle, resulting in loosing multiple positions back to fifth place. P.J. Jones would capitalize on the Lofton’s misfortune moving up into third position.

Trouble found Lofton once again on lap 16 as the hard charging Lofton made contact with Nick Baumgartner exiting the chicane causing extensive damage to the front end of his race truck. The damage resulted in the No. 6 to lose the hood and dropping out of competition one lap later.